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[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 164 points 2 weeks ago

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[-] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 142 points 2 weeks ago

Thank God they're not just letting that shit slip

[-] Prox@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago

What kind of first-world county would let it slip?

Glances nervously in US

[-] Ozeback@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

We don't merely let it slip by nowadays. We lube up the grifting slide to make it faster.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

US? first-world? What? No! It really isn’t. Like health care is worse than some “third-world” countries…

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 93 points 2 weeks ago
[-] dojan@lemmy.world 85 points 2 weeks ago

Hope so. They’ve been trying to undermine the Swedish job market here, and even fucking stalked their employees. Horrible company.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Wait what? Can we give more details? What do you mean by stalked?

[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago

Idk about Sweden, but in Germany middle management visited sick employees at their homes to check whether they were really sick.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/tesla-hausbesuche-krankschreibungen-100.html

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fuck. I'm sorry, if I take a sick day I take a sick day - you might see me out shopping for groceries to survive the day, but I am by no means well.

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Uhm excuse me. If you can walk and carry groceries, clearly you are well 👏 enough 👏 to work 👏. I’m waiting on those TPS* reports tetris11!

Them probably.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

I miss the days when the employees collectively knew where their bosses lived and how to tie fuel-soaked rags to sticks

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Suomessa, tiedämme muutamia asioita Molotovin cocktaileista. ;)

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

I understood two of those words, and that's all I need. We meet at nightfall.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My completely uneducated guess would say that this is the language of a country who know a few things about a Molotov Cocktail!

The closest word in my mental vocabulary which comes close to "Suomessa" is Suomi which is Finnish for Finland

Tiedämme? They tied a dam?

Muutamia has to do with a mutiny!

Asioita, I have no clue.

Then they reference the infamous Flaming Sambucca!

So Finland once staged a mutiny with fiery alcohol and a dam!

Maybe bean (I forget how to tag people in Lemmy posts) can tell me how close I was.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

We call them “TPS reports” buddy. slaps back

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Dang I was close-ish. Fixed

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[-] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] portifornia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Here's a video. It's also in Swedish.

😏

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Jail time would be even better.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe keep your shitty politics out of your shitty product next time, and then you won't face political consequences.

[-] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 94 points 2 weeks ago

In this case it looks like they commited fraud, so it's not even just political.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 58 points 2 weeks ago

That's not even what happened. I work in the auto industry, and they very blatantly abused the rebate program with what are almost certainly fake vouchers.

Some individual dealerships reported thousands of sales in a single day, and that would be a miracle even at the best of times for a well established dealer. There's no way Tesla is declining around the world and still selling miraculous numbers of vehicles.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah I was really confused by the story, surely they actually have to provide some kind of evidence. Surely the Canadian government didn't just run it based on honesty. Wouldn't they have to provide the VIN or something.

But the very least I would have assumed that they had to list the name of the person they sold the car to.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Right, you’d think they would provide vin numbers, which the government would then check against vehicle registrations with whatever DMV equivalent.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm open to being wrong, but this certainly doesn't pass a smell test. We'll see what happens.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if there is the possibility of the shareholders suing Elon because what he's doing is so demonstrably damaging the company. He could totally have done this and not had the big PR problem by just not doing random stuff without running it past anyone. But nooo.

People weren't happy about him essentially buying a governmental position but what they really objected to is all the subsequent things he did.

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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 weeks ago

Trump calling this "Domestic Terrorism" and threatening Tariffs in response in 3.... 2.....

[-] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully, this amounts to a fraud investigation and shareholders dump their stocks and cause Musk to fall below the margin call and then he liquidates and Tesla goes to rock bottom.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't he only own like 13% of the stock in Tesla? His wealth is barely affected by Tesla going bankrupt

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Option 1: Tesla fraudulently filed rebates

Option 2: Tesla filed a backlog of rebates when they realized they had to

Both are possible, but everyone is jumping to conclusion that it's option 1, while option 2 is the easier answer.

Also the government said they're going to let all the other rebates that this pushed out at the last minute get the rebate regardless of if these were legit or not.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

Option 2 should be easy to prove, so why didn’t they do that already, like literally the same day they were accused of it? Then their funds wouldn’t have been frozen.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Especially considering this was months ago

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I imagine they probably don't want to release the information that would prove it if they could, and if they did it'd be redacted enough that no one would believe it anyway. It also costs money to fight endless things like this.

Ultimately, if the government comes back and says its legit, then people will believe it. If it's fraud, there should be punishment.

That whole 1.5 billion accounting fraud story last week, I don't think Tesla said anything official about it or done anything at least to specifically disprove it, but the FT has now retracted the story saying they made a mistake.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They probably had their families threatened. That's what fascist regimes do.

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[-] alaphic@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they shouldn't have kept a backlog then? That certainly sounds like a 'them' problem though, doesn't it?

Doesn't strike me as very efficient either

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think I'd ever call behemoth corporations efficient.

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[-] PyroNeurosis 10 points 2 weeks ago

Now freeze the editor's paycheck - no editor worth that much should be misspelling 'suspicious' in a headline.

[-] jasoman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Canadians taking on the Nazis they should send canned food to tesla next.

[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

What's going on in Quebec?

The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.

Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 weeks ago

Quebec always marches to a different drummer. Nevertheless, I expect they will be dropping the Tesla vehicles from their list sooner or later. They may just not want to make any more adjustments so close to a launch.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

after what US has done tariff wise I'm surprised that they haven't blocked all US companies from it.

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